WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1953 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE i Titans' Ninth Inning Rally Defeats wolverines scoreboard . ..by Dick Lewis BOB HARRISON, that pepper-pot guard who sparked the Wolver- ines to their last Big Ten cage title in 1947-48, is back in Ann Arbor again and he's got a new slant on the timely problem of just what is wrong with Michigan basketball. "The big weakness is defense," the veteran backcourt operator of the professional Minneapolis Lakers pointed out. "Those boys have the ability to shoot and run and score, but their defensive play is definitely deficient." And not being the type of guy who would let his old alma mater down, Harrison is taking a week out to help Coach Bill Perigo and assistant Dave Strack administer some defensive know- how to better than 15 candidates in the spring cage drills. Perigo and Strack (Harrison's old buddy) are glad to have the veteran of four years play with the Lakers back with the college boys, but Harrison, at the present tirge, has no notion of leaving the pro ranks. He's currently regarded as one of the top notch defensive players on the Lakers, National Basketball Association kingpins for the past two years, and he figures on close to five more years of pro ball. After that, he might consider a coaching job at some college or university, but would probably rule out a high school offer. For the past few days, Harrison has been working out some of his coaching theories on the Maize and Blue hopefuls, including remnants of last season's ninth-place finisher and a crop of promising young- sters up from the freshman squad. The Toledo native (his wife's from Ann Arbor) diagnoses the Wolverine weakness as a variety of switch- ing-the time-honored misfortune where players switch defensive as- signments in the course of play and get all fouled up in the process. He believes that if the defensive player sticks with his own man in- stead of shifting to another man, then half the problem of preventing the opposition from scoring is solved. * * * * Cowles Tutored,.. THE OTHER HALF is snatching the ball and putting it through the hoop, but this part never bothered Harrison. While at Michigan, under Ozzie Cowles, Harrison was named to the 1948 all-conference honor five as the Wolverines went to the NCAA playoffs at Madison Square Garden and finished third, after dropping a contest to rugged Holy Cross. That was in 1948, and then Harrison graduated to the pro ranks, where he's been ever since. During the Easter vacation, Harrison's defensive work and the clutch shooting of Whitey Skoog, another Big Ten product, paced the Minneapolis entry to its second straight NBA title-both being achieved with victories over the New York Knicker- bockers in the finals. Harrison still finds time to keep tabs on the group that with him brought the conference bunting to Michigan for the first time since 1931. Pete Elliot, forward on that team, is now the assistant football coach under Bud Wilkinson at Oklahoma, while Boyd McCaslin is coaching high school basketball in Washington. Bill Roberts is with an accounting firm in New York City, while Mack Suprunowicz, until recently on tie Ann Arbor basketball scene, is working as a salesman in this area. This is Harrison's off-season, but the affable one-hand set shot ace will soon be off to Minneapolis where he is employed as a salesman by ABC Trucking, the firm that salaries some of the big names in sports. Then its basketball practice again come October 1st, followed by the annual tilt with the College All-Stars. At that time, he'll probably be looking with a partisan eye back to Ann Arbor, where Michigan will also be warming up for its 22-game campaign. Just as many others, he's already taken an eye to the flashy freshman gubards, Jim Barron and Tom Jorgen- son, who have impressed quite a few others in the spring drills. Sophomore Paul Groffsky, being converted into a forward, also looks promising to Harrison. t vMeanwhile, it's just the pleasant routine of an occasional defen- sive tip to the players and more frequent two-man basketball games with Perigo as the opposition and Strack as teammate. Jeffries Honored . . . SPINNING THE SPORTS WHEEL-Michigan swimming captain Wally Jeffries was recently awarded the outstanding swimmer tro- phy in the National YMCA Championships at St. Louis. Jeffries took the 440-yard free style, 1500-meter and 220-yard free style races . . John Kobs, Michigan State baseball coach, has been crying the blues for some time now about the major leagues grabbing off his stars before they graduate. Kobs was crying for a different reason last weekend. The Spartans dropped a doubleheader to Ohio State, 4-1 and 2-1, with Paul Ebert (the same Paul Ebert that Michigan knocked out tvith an 8-run first inning barrage the day before) going the route for the Buckeyes in the nightcap. The double loss left MSC in the cellar with an 0-3 record ... Track fans are still talking about the amazing performance of the Wolverine thinclads at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Coach Don Canham's charges took a dozen gold watches with four firsts, a second and three thirds-a feat which has not been equalled in recent years . .. . 4 Next on tap for the Maize and Blue runners is a dual relay meet with Michigan State at East Lansing. This experimental competition, slated for May 5th, was thrown into the schedule in expectation of a special Big Ten relay meet in 1954 . . . . Bernie Kahn, former Michi- gan backstroker, now swimming for the Ohhrbach A. A. in New York City . ... * * * * . Million Dollars? . . . THERE'S BEEN LOTS of talk about Michigan's "Million-dollar in- field," and whether the combination of Bill Mogk, Gil Sabuco, Bruce Haynam, and Don Eaddy will stand up. Eaddy, although he made the all-Big Ten team at third base last season, committed half of Michigan's 16 errors; Haynam's bad leg, which kept him out of the bulk of the Western Michigan series, was also a question mark. The million dollar boys dispelled most of these doubts by completing three double plays, two with the bases loaded, in the opener at Columbus ... M' Tennis Squad Rips U of D,8-1 Special to The Daily DETROIT-The Wolverine ten- nis squad got their season off on the right foot yesterdayas they stormed to an 8-1 triumph over the University of Detroit's net con- tingent at Detroit. Michigan took easy two set vic- tories in every match except the number one singles, the only match in which they suffered a setback. * * * TITAN CAPTAIN Bob Wood took quick advantage of Pete Paul- us' early nervousness and grabbed a 6-0 decision in the first set of the number one match. Paulus then settled down but still dropped the second set, 8-6. Wood is an experienced veteran with two years of varsity play behind him. Number two man Dave Mills rolled over Detroit senior Ralph Raucher in two sets, 6-2, 6-3, in his first appearance as a Mi- chigan player. Mills' smooth play kept him out of trouble all the way. Exhibiting some of the form which won the Big Ten consola- tion singles tournament last year Michigan's Al Mann completely outclassed Dick Lane, another De- troit senior, 6-2, 6-0, in the num- ber three slot. * * * MAURY PELTO racked up another Wolverine win with his 6-1, 6-0 trouncing of Wayne Bruce, who played as Titan number four man. In the five and six singles spots Bob Paley and Bob Nederlander scored lopsided victories over U of D netters. Paley downed Bruno Kearns with no trouble, 6-0, 6-2, and Nederlander, a sophomore from Detroit, beat another Detroit product, Titan Larry Kaznecki, 6-1, 6-1. Michigan Coach Bill Murphy's choices for doubles pairings paid off as the Maize and Blue breez- ed through three matches without a loss. * * * MANN COMBINED with Bob Curham, playing only doubles, in extinguishing U of D coach Fred D3 Lodder's top combination of Wood and Lane. Michigan annex- ed the first set easily by a 6-1 margin but had to work for a 7-5 win in the second. A Bob Russell-Bob Dunbar combo netted a 6-2, 6-0 verdict in number two doubles. They were matched against Raucher and Kearns. In the final match Jim Holtz and Ron Morgan slammed Kaz- necki and Bruce, 6-2, 6-2. Michigan used eleven men in the meet compared to Detroit's six and Coach Murphy announced that his lineups would probably re- main unchanged for the next few meets Yirkosky Gives Two Walks For Tying, W By WILL PERRY Special to The Daily DETROIT-A two run rally in the ninth inning enabled the Uni- versity of Detroit to edge Michi- gan, 6-5, yesterday before a chilled crowd on the Titans' home field. The tying and winning tallies came as a present to Detroit as the Wolverine pitching staff sud- denly collapsed and walked both runs in. THE FATEFUL ninth started with Bob Reid, hitting for the catcher, driving one of Garby Ta- dian's deliveries far out in the left field corner for a triple and only fast fielding and a great throw by Paul Lepley prevented further damage. Charley Lotzer then batted for the pitcher, Howard Hughes, and got a free ride to first. When Tadian walked the Titan lead- Blue Ninth inning Runs Pavichevich's sharp single and a two run single by Bill Mogk. The Wolverines were trailing by two going into theeighth when Mogk beat out a drive to deep short for his second hit of the afternoon. After Frank How- ell drew a free pass, Don Eddy's screaming double down the left field foul line sent Michi- gan's third run across the plate and put Howell on third base. Lepley then gave Ray Fisher's nine their first lead of the after- noon with his two run single. Punting Marks Grid Practice In a continuing effort to find a punter to replace the graduating Bill Billings, football coach Ben- ny Oosterbaan sent his charges through an extensive kicking drill yesterday afternoon. Tony Branoff, regular right half of last fall's squad, and Lou Bal- dacci, a highly touted freshman quarterback prospect from Akron, Ohio, did most of the booting, but neither exactly brought back me- mories of Billing's performances of the past two years. HOWEVER, BOTH did a couple of pretty fair kicks, and carry re- putations for being pretty fair punters. Because of the cancellation of two platoon football, it is manda- tory to thecoaching staff that a first string player be found who can adequately handle the kicking duties. Billings' play was gener- ally limited to punting situations. The pass defense, one of Michi- gan's foremost weaknesses last fall, also received a thorough workout yesterday. By PHIL DOUGLIS Howie Guggenheim's towering home run blast into deep center field gave Pi Lambda Phi a thrill- ing 2-1 victory over Alpha Tau Omega yesterday, highlighting fra- ternity softball action. Guggenheim's clout, coming in the last half of the last inning was only the second hit off of ATO hurler Bill Munroe. The other Pil- am run came in the second inning, while ATO scored in the top of the fourth. Pilam hurler Sid Amster did a good job in keeping the ATO bats quiet, allowing only three hits. SIGMA Alpha Epsilon took Zeta Psi into camp, 5-0, as SAE pitcher Bud Engel pitched his second one- hitter of the season. The contest was a pitchers duel until SAE scored four times in the last in- MAJOR LEAGUE SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 3, Cleveland 2 Boston 2,;Detroit 0 Chicago 5, Washington 4 New York 7, St. Louis 6 (10 in- nings) NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 4, New York 1 St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 5 Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 3 GOLFERS Have fun at the Partridge Practice Range We furnish clubs and balls -21/ miles out Washte- now - right on U.S. 23 for 1 mile. ning. The only hit off Engel was a triple in the last inning. Defending fraternity softball champion, Phi Sigma Delta, hammered home a 6-3 win over Delta Kappa Epsilon, as it twice came through with clutch hits. Don Cohen bashed a double with two on board in the first, and Gene Mackevich smashed a tri- ple with one on in the third. In another contest Sigma Alpha Mu and Beta Pi fought to a' 2-2 standoff. The Sammies had men on second and third in the fifth with only one out, but the Betas retired the side to gain the tie. PHI DELTA THETA opened up its big guns in the bottom of tht fourth inning, scoring 11 times as they rolled overlDelta Sigma Phi, 20-3. Harry Heil paced the win- ners with a towering home run. Phi Kappa Sigma's Russ Res- corla and Tau Delta Phi's Gene Curtis hooked up in a tight pitchershduel for three innings until the Phi Kappa Sigs tal- lied three times in the fourth and five times in the fifth to win 9-6. Lambda Chi Alpha, with Jay Casemier striking out 10 men along the way, nipped Theta Xi, 4-3. However, Theta Xi is pfotesting the game over a time technicality. In other social fraternity games, Theta Delta Chi blasted Theta Chi, 9-2, as Tom Witherspoon homered, and Phi Sigma Kappa whipped Sigma Phi, 8-2, on the hitting of Bob Mueller. Mueller smashed out a home run and a triple. PROFESSIONAL FRATERNITY SIOFTBALL Psi Omega 8, Delta sigma Delta 9 Nu Sigma Nu 9, Alpha Chi Sigma 1 Alpha Kappa Kappa 11, Alpha Omega 3 Phi Gamma Delta 9, Alpha Delta Phi 6 FRATERNITY WATER POLO SEMI-FINAL Sigma Chi 1, ATO 0 (five overtimes) RESIDENCE HALL TENNIS Adams 3, Scott 0 Hayden 2, Gomberg I Cooley 3, Van Tyne 0 Winchell defeated Fletcher (forfeit) Reeves defeated Anderson ( forfeit) SAE DOWNS ZETA PSI, 5-O Pi Lambda Phi Homer Nips A TO, 2-1 MICHIGAN AB R Cline, rf 5 0) Mogk, ss 4 1 Howell, cf 3 1 Eaddy, 3b 4 1 Lepley, If 4 0 Sabuco, 21b 4 1 Leach, c 3 1 Pacichevich, lb 4 0 Carpenter, p 0 0 Woschitz, p 1 0 *Harrington 1 0 Tabian, p 1 0 **Billings 1 0 Totals 35 5 *Grounded out for Carpenter **Grounded out for Woschitz li 1 2 0 1 0 03 0 Q 0 9 DETROIT AB R H Taub, cf 3 0 1 Handloser, ss 4 0 1 Juif, rf 4 0 2 Diety, 1b 1 1 0 Moore, if 4 1 1 Koster, 3b 4 1 1 Ursini, 2b 4 1 1 McLaughlin, c 3 0 0 Hughes, p 3 0 1 *Reid 1 1 1 **Lotzer 0 1 0 Totals 31 6 9' *Tripled for McLaughlin **Walked for Hughes Michigan 000 020 030-5 9 b Detroit 040 000 002-6 9 1 off man, Dick Taub, Coach Ray Fisher called in his ace reliefer, Dick Yirkosky, who forced in the next two runs with a pair of walks. 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